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| Yummy! Christmas Cut-out Cookies - by Henry an I |
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| Christmas Eve Party at the Haa ( most folks had left before I took any photos) :( |
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| OOOOOOOOOOOOH! |
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| Tree at the Kirk Christmas Morning |
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| Ho Ho Ho? more like Who Who Whooo! Long-eared Owl in the Lower Stoneybreck garden. |
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| Lego Santa Dance! (still from video) |
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| My Christmas cartoon for the Fair Isle Times newspaper. |
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| Winter can be the best time to photograph the South Lighthouse with the sun low on the southern sky. |
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| AMAZING!
With only 6 children in the Fair Isle Primary School they can still put on quite a show as they did with last nights performance. (Dec 17th) Starting with Raven & Henry"s Fair Isle rewrite of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". Bravo Kids! but you need not take my word for it watch the video below.
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| Yes, it is easy to tell by the video footage which child is mine. No apologises, that's what Henry's Grandmas & family in America want to see. With 9 splendid musical performances last night I only have video of the 3 below. |
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| Tea & coffee with mince pies after the show. |
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| Ythan, Henry, Raven, Maria, Amber & Robin give a big thanks to their awesome Head Teacher Nick and amazing Music Teacher Lise. Plus special thanks to Tom & Neil for sitting in on "Love Me Do" |
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| The waves through rocks over the road in the Havens. |
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| Wave over the brakewall - North Haven |
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| You can see the water pouring off the pier as it was just under water. the skips have been pushed/floated down the pier. |
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| You can see the northern end of Buness and the North Haven brakewall are under water. |
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This fishing boat was riding out the storm on the sheltered west side of the Isle.
I found this Gurnard among the seaweed at Kirki Geo.
 Goosander! uncommon on Fair Isle. This is only my second sighting of this species since moving to Fair Isle six years ago. Sheltering in the North Haven this Goosander was riding out the storm with the Eiders, Shags & a Scoter. A Dunlin & some Purple Sandpipers have joined the flock of Turnstones on the Haven beach. Wind blown and in need of a clean up and a few repairs... all are well on Fair Isle. |
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| SouthHarbour - low tide |
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| South Harbour - panorama |
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| Raevas - Hjunkni Geo - Hoini - panorama |
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| Hjunkni Geo and the cliffs of Hoini |
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| My honey on Hoini |
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| If you can see that speck with her camera up top? That might give you some sense of scale. |
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| Liz Musser taking advantage of a sunny day, gathering landscape video for her new project. Now Liz looks like a giant at the cliffs edge, believe me the awe of Fair Isle's landscape makes one feel humble, quite mortal but alive. |
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| No wonder our son Henry's drawing won a place in the NHS Shetland - 2013 Heath & Safety Calender. "Birds fly People don't!" |
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| The Raevas |
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| The rock formation Long Kole, also know as "da Queen" Said to look like Queen Victoria's profile when viewed through the Reavas from Shirva. as in this photo... |
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| Snow Buntings |
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| I had a peak count of 57 Curlew the other day. |
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| Yeah! The Christmas Trees came in last night on our Good Shepherd ferry. Which had not sailed for 2 weeks due to bad weather and high seas. |
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| Liz Musser & Henry South Harbour, Fair Isle. |
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| Liz & the Auld Haa Guesthouse |
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| Henry, Tommy & Liz |
